GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs. Alex: That one’s easy. Why are they doing this?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. Alex: Can I ask a question? Melissa, were you a banker before you did research?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Eric: Martha – breaking the definition for palliative care, no longer an extra layer of support. I don’t know if that’s true, but I just wanted to say that if there is this concern, this builds on what Eric was saying, this trend of equity buying hospices, buying assisted living facilities. Alex: Nursing homes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher.

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